Happy New Year 2006
Last night I went to Southbank to watch the fireworks, we found a spot on the bridge between Spencer St and Clarendon St. The fireworks show wasn’t as good as previous years, they also moved from Flinders Station to Federation Square this year so we ended up even further away.

Colourful fireworks over the Southgate bridge.
The highlight of 2005 for me was resigning from work at the end of April, packed my bags (all 3 of them), and flew to Singapore with the plan to work and live there for the next 2-3 years. Reality changed direction and I had to return to Melbourne after a month. I was disappointed, but it was a great experience nonetheless. It was humbling and eye opening to live in another country for a month. To this day, I still want to travel to some Asian countries later on in the future.
And here’s to 2006, cheers!
Tagyu4J: Tagyu Java API
Tagyu4J v0.1 has been released. Tagyu provides tag suggestions for a given text or URL, and Tagyu4J is a Java API used for interacting with Tagyu REST web services interface
I initially misunderstood its authentication mechanism by assuming that it prompts authentication challenges. It turned out that Tagyu checks the authentication header on every request. Wikipedia has the details of HTTP Basic Authentication Scheme.